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India can plan long-term with Kohli: Dravid

| | Jan 13, 2015, at 06:06 am
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IBNS): Former Indian skipper Rahul Dravid feels that the country can plan long-term with current Indian Test skipper Virat Kohli.

"I think it's early days for Virat. But he's shown that he can lead. One of the biggest pluses for me was his own performance in this series. The worst thing would have been, for someone like Virat, who was the obvious successor to Mahendra Singh Dhoni, to have not performed and not been sure of his own place, which was one of the concerns after the tour of England," Dravid told ESPNcricinfo.

"But that's not the case, now we know that Virat's a shoo-in candidate for the captaincy, he's someone whom Indian cricket can plan long-term with, and that's what they should do. Results will take care of themselves, with the right plans you're making, right noises you're making to go out and find bowlers and plan long-term, and sit down and think about how are we playing these tours, are we preparing well enough, are we going there well in advance, playing the practice games, what are the kind of skills required," he said.

Kohli was made the official Test captain of India following MS Dhoni's decision to quit Tests after the third match of the series on Dec 30.

India lost the four-match Test series against India 2-0.
 

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